More Bulls Problems

According to the Guardian, Orford is seeking release from his current contract to play for Canberra. As yet the Bulls haven't signed any cover for half backs, and if the report is true, and usually The Guardian has got its facts right! Then the club will be really struggling. Presume the main hope will be obtaining an overseas coverage with the space left by Orford, I am sure the Bulls are well aware of the situation, and forcing Orford to honour his contract isn't going to help if he doesn't want to play for the Bulls anymore.

According to the Guardian, Orford is seeking release from his current contract to play for Canberra. As yet the Bulls haven't signed any cover for half backs, and if the report is true, and usually The Guardian has got its facts right! Then the club will be really struggling. Presume the main hope will be obtaining an overseas coverage with the space left by Orford, I am sure the Bulls are well aware of the situation, and forcing Orford to honour his contract isn't going to help if he doesn't want to play for the Bulls anymore.

If Orford seeking a release allows us to sign Price and /or Fielding, it will make far more difference to selling season tickets than him seeing out his contract.

I am still a fan of Orford, but I felt from the start that we had placed a lot of eggs in one basket.

his kicking was poor yes but he won us some games single handedly, a la wigan at home.we have no other player like that and you need a player like that.Sign a replacement, if not, make him stay or face another season without playoff football.

his kicking was poor yes but he won us some games single handedly, a la wigan at home.we have no other player like that and you need a player like that.Sign a replacement, if not, make him stay or face another season without playoff football.

Making him stay will never work,if he doesn't want to play for bulls he won't. Bulls may force him onto the field in a shirt,but he won't play.

But some of the Bradford faithful just could not face the awful truth:

QUOTE (PC @ Jul 23 2010, 02:58 AM)

So on the one hand we have idle newspaper speculation in Aus, and on the other we have a direct quote from the chairman of the club Ox is contracted to. Just done a bit of digging, and I've found this quote from the man himself.

Couple that with the fact he tried to play on, and did play in the CC game against Wire, with three muscle tears in his shoulder and a dislocation, and it looks to me that he has a lot of pride in playing for the Bulls.

It will be impossible to replace Orford with someone of comparable quality. Quality scrum halves are as scarce as hen's teeth. When Catalans went looking they came up with a Newcastle reserve half, Scott Dureau.